Seen Elsewhere

The new Ara Pacis museum opens with a handshake beneath the Tellus Relief. Photo Reuters.
Yesterday was Rome’s birthday which refutes the old myth about Rome not being built in a day. Celebrations included the opening of the Ara Pacis museum which led to this handshake beneath the Tellus relief. It follows that Rome must be [...]

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Egyptian Astronomy Study Day

Zoser Pyramid. Photo by Tom@HK.
I accidentally spent some time in a πCETL meeting in Physics this week. I was rewarded though as I got a free ticket to the Egypt Exploration Society’s Study Day: The Heavens on Earth: Astronomy and Ancient Egypt. There’ll be four major talks Prof Malcolm Coe, Astronomy for Archaeologists - what [...]

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Housekeeping

After about a year I thought it was time this website had a title. People have been linking to it as both Alun and Archaeoastronomy. Alun was in the title box as a placeholder and the archaeoastronomy URL was used because I had it spare and I couldn’t think of a title to register for [...]

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